Are kids' vitamins an acceptable substitute?

[Shades]

Now I know prenatal vitamins are important, especially if you're getting bad m/s, they give you stuff you're missing out on otherwise...

I take 0.5mg of Folic Acid everyday - it's a little tablet and goes down alright mostly - so they're fine, but my big 'horse' tablets (Blackmore's) are really hard to get down!!

Are the chewable fruity kids vitamins an acceptable middle ground substitute? If it means them or no vitamins at all? I CANNOT take the Blackmore's at the moment.

I've checked the bottle and the ones we have seem to have more or less the same stuff in them, in smaller quantities though which makes sense. No Vitamin A in them either which is good. So should I take them instead for now?

[Junglemum]

i couldn't take any vitamins either, they made my nausea so much worse. (I did take folate, but that was it) My chinese med Dr recommended i try take the kids chewable ones instead. I did try, but they made my throw up too.
So i would say yes, they are ok to take and better than nothing!

[Shades]

Okay great

Thanks Falguni - hope things are going better these days

[ss_storm]

I bought a bottle of Blackmore's tablets, not realising how enormous they were! I have trouble swallowing normal panadol sized tablets, and after trying, there was no way in the world I was going to be able to swallow them. I gave up and bought some Elevit tablets (not really any difference in price when buying from our discount chemist, it roughly works out the same anyway), which aren't gel caps and have an indent down the centre so they can be cut in half, I still have to cut them up into between 4-6 pieces so I don't make myself gag or throw up when I swallow them, but it's so much easier than trying to force down the blackmores ones!
I don't know what's in kids vitamin tablets, but I guess as long as you are getting the recommended dosage of folate and eating as healthily as possible. And really, what did women do before they manufactured pre-natal vitamins......

[tk1999]

I have found that I can only take my blackmores tablets with milk... and that I usually get the gag reflex either way... I take mine at night because when I took them in the morning I was always sick.

[MantaRay]

Actually, apart from folic acid and often iron, pre-natal vitamins are not usually necessary. The same is true while breastfeeding also.